Overall suspender strap and method of manufacturing same



May 19, 1925. 1,538,611

6. c. BEICHL OVERALL SUSPENDER STRAP AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME Filed Sept. 29. 1921 Wisconsin, have invented new and useful.

Patented May 19, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT comes.

GEORGE C. BEIGHL, O1? BEAVER DAM, WISCONQIN.

Application filed September 29, 1921. Serial No. 504,137..

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnome C. BERGEN}. a citizen of the United States, residing at Beaver Dam, county of Dodge, and State of Improvements in Overall Suspender Straps and Methods of ltlamifacturing Same of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in overall Suspender straps and methods of manufacturing the same.

The primary object of my invention is to provide means whereby the Suspender strap may be connected with the "button engaging clip or fastener and then stitiched to the slide upon a sewing machine, and the button clip or fastener, subsequently manipulated thru the slide to carry the strap with it into position for use.

Heretofore it has not been thought possible to utilize sewing machines for stitching the ends of the suspender strap to the slide. the general practice being to pass the strap thru the slide, then thru the yoke or loop of the. button engaging strap or fastener, the strap being then folded back upon itself and the end passed by hand about the transverse bars of the slide. But I have devised an improved slide with the object in view of allowing the strap to be manipulated thru it after the end of the strap has been connected, thereby making it possible to first apply the button fastener to the strap. then loop the end around the lower transverse bar of the slide and stitch the sides of the loop together on an ordinary sewing machine, the form of the slide being such that the strap may subsequently be manipulated to extend in opposite. directions between its successive transverse bars into position for use with the button fastener suspended below it.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the slide.

Figure 2 is a perspective View of the slide having its pivoted bar raised and aconnected Suspender strap looped between the adjacent first and third bars to a position for receiving the pivoted bar between the sides of the loop.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In Figure 1 the slide is illustrated as composed of wire. In this slide the bar 1 is connected at its respective ends directly with the third bar 6 The connecting strands of wire 2 and 3* have their middle portions bowed inwardly as indicated at. 11 and 12. The bar 4i has an eye 13 at one end thru which the bowed portion 11 passes. At its other end the bar 4-? is elbo-wed as indicated at M and provided with ahead 15, which serves as a catch to snap over the inwardly bowed portion 12 of the connection 2. The wire is resilient and therefore the, head 15 may be forced across the connecting piece 2 to engage or release it under manual pressure.

The lower end of the piece 2 is provided with an eye which loops about the bar 6*. The latter constitutes a continua tion of the connecting piece 3 and is in turn connected with the fourth or lower bar of the slide 9 by the integral connecting pieces 8 and 7, the latter constituting the end portion of the strand of wire and being pro vided with an eye 16 looped about the elbow 17.

In the above described slide structure the suspender strap 20 be passed thru the strap receiving yoke 21 of the button fastener 22 and the end of the strap may then be looped about the bar 9 as shown in Figure 2. The folded end portion 23of the strap may then be inserted under the pressor foot of any ordinary sewing machine and secured by the line of stitching 24.

In manipulating the strap into assembled;

relationto the slide disclosed in Figure 1, the structure of the slide in Figure 1 is such that the bar l -may be disengaged at the headed end and swung upwardly and 0utwardly to the position in which it is shown in Figure 2. The strap may then be looped thru the space between the bars 1 and6 as shown in Figure 2, and the bar 4 swung outwardly into the loop and snapped into engagement with the; connecting strand 2 as above explained in describing the slide shown in Figure 1. The button fastener 22 will first be passed between the bars 6 and 9.

It will be understood that my improved vmethod involves the use of a button fastener which can be manipulatedas above described, in addition to a slide which will permit the strap to be manipulated into engagement between its bars after it has been permanently connected with one of the bars,

the consideration of primary importance being the use of slides and button fasteners of such character as to permit thepermanentconnection of the strap with one of the bars of the slide by stitching upon the sewing machine preparatory to the assembly of the strap in operative relation to the slide.

The method above described reduces the cost of manufacture materially and, expedites the Work in such a manner that the factory output :per day may be greatly increased. 7 It will also be observed that the method above described is such that by passing the fastener 22 between the bars 6* and 9 the closed strap loop 23 is reversed in position and concealed beneath the outer memberof the extension loop 27 when the parts are fully assembled.

The head 15 performs the function of aretainer to prevent accidental disengagement of the strap from the slide bars.

I claim:

1. A suspender strap slide including a single piece of Wire bent to form two adjacent substantially rectangular figures having a common side member, the ends of said Wire being secured to the ends of said side member, together With a member ,pivotally connected With one of saidfigures and exten ding transversely thereof.

2. A suspeuder strap slide comprising a single piece of Wire bent to form two adjacent substantially rectangular figures having a common side member,'one of said figures being larger than the other of-said fig ures and, having two opposite sides bowed inwardly, and a cross bar pivotallymounted on oneof said sides and provided with a hooked end for resiliently engaging the other ofsaid sides, said Wire having its ends secured-to :the ends of said side member.

GEORGE o. BEIGI-IL. 

